The final pieces to the 2025-26 Nike uniform puzzle have been released. Auburn Baseball and Softball have now showcased their first set of uniforms with the new uniform provider, ready in time to kick off the new season.
We’ve previously covered the fall sports and basketball uniforms. The diamond sports are up next.
Softball
We kick things off with the Auburn Softball team. The Tigers are utilizing Nike’s latest template, which features a large collar. The navy tops are a pullover style, so the collar is truncated above the wordmark, where the other colorways continue the placket down the front of the shirt. Thankfully, Auburn avoided the contrasting collars, which look particularly bad with the oversized collars.
Auburn revealed four colorways – navy, white, orange, and pinstripes. Ultimately, the designs are rather similar to last year. The blue uniforms saw the biggest change, with the oversized Northwestern stripes on the collar, sleeves, and pants being replaced to better match the rest of the set.
“War Eagle” patches on the sleeves are the newest detail for 2026. (image via Auburn Athletics)
The base design is pretty simple across the board. All four jerseys have an arching Copperplate wordmark on the chest, with the white tops continuing the tradition of having the “Tigers” nickname on at least one jersey. With the exception of the pinstripes, thin Northwestern stripes are placed around the sleeves, with a matching stripe used on the sides of the pants. The new department-wide font, TT Norms, is used for the player numbers, replacing the sans-serif Copperplate numerals. The AU logo returns on the back of the jersey, between the collar and the number.
All four colorways have three unique details new to Auburn Softball uniforms. For the first time, the school’s battle cry will appear on the team’s uniforms. A small “War Eagle” patch will adorn the right sleeves and sit above the Northwestern stripes. The text on each patch is in a colorway matching the chestmark and numbers. Auburn’s pinstripe uniforms will also carry the patch, with a white background covering up parts of the pinstripes.
Rather than having solid color, contrasting manufacturer logos, the new uniforms feature a silver Nike swoosh outlined in black. Over the last decade or so, Nike has added silver, chrome, or diamond logos for teams appearing in the playoffs or national title games, and for those teams that have won the trophy. It’s an interesting addition for Auburn Softball, which has made two Women’s College World Series appearances and one title game appearance, albeit a decade ago. Auburn Basketball didn’t receive the silver collar tab following the Final Four appearances due to not wearing Nike uniforms at the time. It’s unclear if Softball’s silver Swoosh is related to these postseason accomplishments or not.
And finally, for the first time, the AU logo is placed on the back of the pants on the belt tunnel. Auburn has had the primary logo featured on the back of the jerseys for years now. Belt tunnel logos aren’t a common feature, especially in softball or baseball. Auburn Football wore the battle cry “tramp stamp” pants starting with the new template in 2011. It only lasted a few years and hasn’t been seen since across any sport on campus.
One item missing this season is a traditional grey road uniform. Auburn had gone back and forth between the typical light grey threads, dark charcoal uniforms, back to the lighter shade, and, most recently, another darker shade.. This go around, the road uniforms were missing entirely from the reveal. It’s unclear if Auburn will still break out a grey colorway this year or not. Despite grey being the traditional road uniform color, it had fallen from that role in recent years at Auburn. The Tigers often wore the grey uniforms for home games. The uniform also wasn’t worn for all road trips, while the white “home” uniforms would often make appearances.
During the team’s media day photoshoots last week, the Tigers only sported the navy socks and belts. We expect to see the orange and white versions make appearances as Auburn mixes and matches for unique uniform combinations throughout the season. The bar was set high last year, as we saw a program record with twenty-one combos.
Check out all the details and changes with the ever Handy Dandy Side-by-Side Graphic ™.
UPDATE JAN 28: After a few days of teasers, Auburn Softball finally revealed their fifth uniform in the rotation. The new uniforms are a new look for Auburn’s diamond sports – a navy base with orange pinstripes.
The script Auburn logo returns to the front of the jersey after being replaced on the standard navy tops. Everything else matches the white pinstripes – number on the front, War Eagle patch on the sleeve, AU logo above the back number and placed on the back belt loop on the pants.
The Tigers also confirmed that the orange belts and socks would be available in the uniform arsenal this year. Expect to see them mixed in with the other uniform combinations, along with a yet-to-be-seen pair of white accessories.
Overall, it’s a stark diversion from Auburn’s traditional diamond uniforms, but looks well designed in the initial releases. Personally, I’m excited to see this uniform debut on the field and see how it looks in action.
Baseball
The Auburn Baseball uniforms for 2026 are a bit of an all-star lineup. Between the six new uniforms revealed last week – and seven total – there are elements pulled from multiple different designs over the past decade.
Let’s start with the controversial navy uniforms. Love ’em or hate ’em, the blueberry look will return in 2026, with the blue jerseys and pants. The jerseys retain the same overall design from last year – white script Auburn, orange player number on the front, white player name and number on the back. The pants lose the white stripe, which is an unfortunate change. The Nike logos on both tops and bottoms are orange rather than white, which add a slight pop of additional color.
A standard white jersey replaces the poorly designed throwback tops from last year. It matches the navy tops with the script wordmark and front number, but now in two colors – navy outlined in orange. These will also feature a thin navy stripe around the sleeves. Overall, it’s reminiscent of the 2018-2022 design, minus the Northwestern stripe trim.
Auburn added a much-needed white outline to the navy script mark on the orange jerseys, but kept the numbers as a single color. It switched from navy to white to better mimic the navy jerseys with the contrasting wordmark and number colors. The rear numbers keep the all-navy look. The updated wordmark colors are a positive change, but, oddly, the aesthetic tweak didn’t make it to the rest of the jersey. Adding a matching outline would have been preferred to make for a better all-around design.
A new template, some updated details, and laser-perforated numbers highlight Baseball’s new uniforms. (image via Auburn Athletics)
For the first time since 2008, Auburn’s road grey jerseys will proudly feature the AU logo rather than the school name across the chest. Much like the original Under Armour design, this new Nike jersey will include a navy stripe around the sleeves, but leaves off the placket stripe down the center of the jersey.
And much like the greys, the cream-colored tops will also include the AU logo on the chest. It’s the first time that this colored uniform doesn’t feature the Auburn script wordmark. This jersey, however, will include the navy sleeve and placket piping, partially mimicking the original design introduced in 2009.
And finally, the pinstripe uniforms will return for 2026, with negligible changes. The AU logo will remain on the left chest with the player number on the right side and underneath.
Debuting in October for the Savannah Bananas game, Auburn’s powder blue uniforms will remain in the rotation for this season. We broke down details of the new throwback design in the fall, so check out all the details here. The only new detail here since the BananaBall game is that the USA flag patch has been added to the back of the jersey, just below the collar. This set will not carry the player’s last name, unlike the other tops.
With the previous uniform set, the navy pants featured a white stripe down the leg while the others were stripeless (minus the pinstripes, of course). This time around, it’s been reversed. The navy britches are now sans-stripe, while the other pairs have a navy stripe added. There is a second pair of white pants to be worn with the primary uniforms, different than the powder blue-striped pair worn with the throwbacks.
Unlike Softball, Auburn Baseball won’t be wearing a special Nike logo on their uniforms. The Swoosh is navy on most jerseys, with the navy uniforms having an orange logo and a white checkmark used on the orange tops. It’s unfortunate that the Nike logo sits on the left chest, as opposed to the Under Armour logo on the right side. While it fits well with the script jerseys, the Swoosh sits far too close to the AU logos. Oddly enough, the space between the Nike and AU logos is greater on the cream tops than on the grey and pinstripe jerseys.
All jerseys will feature the new TT Norms number font, which replaces the long-used sans-serif Copperplate digits. A new font is also used for the nameplates, which are now radially arched rather than straight across the back of the jersey.
Auburn showcased two hats during the uniform reveal. The primary hat will continue to be the all-navy cap with the orange/white AU logo. The Block A hat returns and will be paired primarily with the throwback blues. A third ballcap has been worn during practice, with a navy AU outlined in white. It’s unclear if this will be a practice-only hat or appear during games. My guess is it’ll replace the all-white AU logo hats and be paired with the all-blue combo.
Another interesting note is that this set will include three different jersey templates.
The basic rotation – navy, white, grey, orange, and pinstripes – is using the latest Nike template. It includes a thinner placket, the space where the buttons live, which creates a thinner collar. There is an additional “sun collar” added above the typical collar (except the pinstripes, for some reason). It’s the same template as what the MLB adopted in 2024 and quickly abandoned for the 2025 season after players and fans complained. Players didn’t like the new tailoring options, and fans disliked the smaller logos, numbers, and nameplate numbers. The template also failed to wick away moisture efficiently, which caused some miscoloring between the jersey and pants later in the game.
The cream jerseys are set on a more traditional baseball jersey template, more similar to the previous Under Armour tops than the others. It still has a thinner placket, but not the sun collar. Where the other jerseys have “set-in” sleeves, these feature “raglan” sleeves. It’s not a big change, but odd to see the differences.
And then the throwback powder blues. These utilize a pullover template that differs from Nike’s current offering, which includes a funky collar design. These are a hybrid between the inset and raglan sleeves. It’s possible that these all came from different outlets and not directly from Nike – note the inner tagging differences between the base template, the creams, the throwbacks, and what Softball is to wear.
The template differences don’t end there. The base templated jerseys, minus the pinstripes, have numbers with laser-perforated holes. They shouldn’t be too visible during games. Nike tested this application during 2021 Spring Training and a more noticeable version in the minor leagues. The pinstripes, creams, and powder blues each carry standard tackle twill numbers without the mesh-like holes. Again, this isn’t a big aesthetic change that will be noticeable during gamedays, it’s just interesting to see the differences. This may lend more credence to the uniforms coming from different places.
The Handy Dandy Side-by-Side Graphic ™ below details all the changes and details for this year’s set of uniforms:
Overall, I think these are the best uniforms from year one of the Nike deal. They aren’t perfect, as I’d make a few tweaks here and there, but they’re really solid. I like that Softball kept to the same motifs as the previous year, and Baseball decided this was a great opportunity to mix and match elements from across the program’s history.
Whenever new uniforms are revealed, one common comment across all social media platforms is, “Where can I buy this?” As of publishing, the jerseys and hats are not yet available. Stay tuned, and I’ll share whenever they are available to purchase online.
And with that, likely comes an end to the new uniforms for the 2025-26 season. It’s been a busy year for the Auburn Uniform Database, and it’s not over yet. As always, you can expect a full season recap during the summer with a look back at all the new uniforms across the athletics department.
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